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#Using remote assistant how to#

You can do that by firstly having an easy to remember network name (e.g ).

When you’re away from home, the first problem to solve is to be able to find your home network.

Access your Home Assistant remotely and securely using your DuckDNS subdomain without a port number.Ĭonnect Home Assistant to a subdomain at.

Set up the nginx SSL proxy add-on in Home Assistant.

Set up the DuckDNS add-on in Home Assistant.

Create an account and a subdomain at DuckDNS.

The following nginx SSL proxy setup procedure can be summarised: I can’t tell you whether using nginx or using Wireguard is ‘better’ but I’m reliably using both of them.

#Using remote assistant how to#

I explain how to set up Wireguard on Home Assistant here. Otherwise, if you simply want to access Home Assistant securely from outside your home proceed as below.īTW an alternative procedure, which is very reliable, uses Wireguard to connect your phone to securely browse to your Home Assistant internal IP, router, IP camera, printer or NAS drive as if you were at your desk. Leave this page now and see using nginx proxy manager with home assistant – avoid the infernal ‘internal error’ If you want to do more than access Home Assistant securely from outside the home, for example you also want to access other devices such as a NAS or Synology or a server on your home network you need a different add-on (nginx Proxy Manager) and a different workflow to achieve that. A bit of nginx magic achieves this but the resulting benefits are not only great, the mobile app can access sensors (GPS battery, status) in your phone for very useful information.

In addition to having anywhere access with a browser URL, there’s an excellent phone app to access Home Assistant. The Home Assistant home automation hub is more useful if you can access it remotely.